Remember G.I.G.O.? No, that’s Gigli (but, I guess, also G.I.G.O.). G.I.G.O. was a concept used back when we were willing to spend money to tech kids how to program computers, as opposed to just playing with them. It was an acronym meaning Garbage In, Garbage Out. What it said was that if you weren’t careful when writing the code, you had no right to be surprised when your code didn’t work. The computers didn’t make the mistake, the programmers did.

In this week’s Todcast, we discussed how deeply our low expectations for food and our lower expectations for public behavior affect everything. Similarly, we discussed whether and if it was OK to be held hostage by a baby, and, the (de)merits of playing chess as if it were checkers. Basically and without irony we used our free podcast to remind people you get what you pay for. I guess it was a poorly conceived argument.

On the lighter side of things we planned for the weekend and talked (hopefully for the last time, in a while) about Berlin’s big award. It’ not that we feel it’s tedious to think about, but we do know it’s tedious to listen to weekly.

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